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loves: you win if you guessed "pets" and "museums". Also books, art history, travel, British punk, Korean kimchi, bindis, martinis, and other things TBD. I will always make it very clear if a post is sponsored in any way. Drop me a line at thepetmuseum AT gmail.com !

Monday, October 18, 2010

jonathan swift: "advice to a dog painter"

Happiest of the spaniel race,Painter, with thy colors grace,Draw his forehead large and high,Draw his blue and humid eye;Draw his neck, so smooth and round,Little neck with ribands bound;And the musely swelling breastWhere the Loves and Graces rest;And the spreading, even back,Soft, and sleek, and glossy black;And the tail that gently twines,Like the tendrils of the vines;And the silky twisted hair,Shadowing thick the velvet ear;Velvet ears which, hanging low,O'er the veiny temples flow.